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Grant program helps small communities make ends meet

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BY SHERI REGNIER Times Staff

Few things in life have no strings attached, but in a way that defines the province's Small Community Grant program.

Unconditional funds are distributed twice a year, giving municipalities with populations under 19,000 the leeway to invest the money in local needs such as safety initiatives, infrastructure upgrades, capital projects, or administrative and service delivery priorities.

Last week, the province released “This will $40 million in small effectively community grants eliminate any and another $75 million is slated for reserve disbursement in dependency that June. has been built Each community recognizes the grant into the budget as general revenue over the last few though respective years.” councils are the decision-makers in DAVID PEREHUDOFF how the cash will be used.

While Trail council hasn't directed its $470,000 into a service or project at this point, most likely the funding will be applied to the capital plan, explained David Perehudoff, the city's chief administrative officer (CAO).

This year's grant increased approximately $173,000 from 2014, and bumps total capital expenditures from the general coffer to about $2.1 million compared to $1.74 million from last year.

“This will effectively eliminate any reserve dependency that has been built into the budget over the last few years,” Perehudoff said.

“The moneys do provide flexibility in the context of such things as capital spending or can be used to offset costs in the interest of reducing the overall municipal property tax levy.”

Rossland will take in close to $478,000 through the grant program, said the city's Mayor Kathy Moore.

“It just goes into our general revenue and helps us keep the lights on,” she added.

In past years, Fruitvale has used its small community grant to augment taxation revenue to provide basic services such as roads and transportation, sidewalks and street lighting, said CAO Lila Cresswell.

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Roger Bourgeois (left) and Colin Truscott of Arrow Fence Installation were fortifying the barrier keeping the public off the Old Bridge in Trail on Friday. The city upgraded the fencing after people continued to skirt around the barricade to cross the bridge, which has been closed to vehicles and pedestrians since 2011.

Police seek public’s help after purse snatching

BY SHERI REGNIER Times Staff

Greater Trail police are still seeking help identifying a male purse snatcher who robbed a woman in Gyro Park on Thursday.

Sgt. Darren Oelke of the Trail and Greater District Detachment said the police are continuing to investigate the incident.

“There has been no development yet. We haven’t received any viable tips,” he told the Trail Times on Monday.

“As far we know this is an isolated incident.”

The robbery occurred Thursday afternoon when the female victim was walking in the trail area of Gyro Park.

The suspect was riding a light green and white mountain bike when he approached a woman from behind and snatched her back pack as he rode by.

The back pack contained numerous belongings, including her purse.

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He is approximately 5'5” to 5'7” and was wearing blue jeans and a jean or cord type jacket, said an RCMP press release.

Anyone with information is urged to contact the police at 250.364.2566 or anonymously at Crime Stoppers, 1.800.222.TIPS (8477).

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Mayor responds to allegations from former councillor

By Chris Stedile Rossland News

In a recent letter sent to the Rossland News, excouncillor and mayoral candidate Jill Spearn slammed city council — in particular Mayor Kathy Moore — over the recent events with city employees Tracey Butler and Darrin Albo.

Butler was previously the city’s deputy chief administrative officer and Albo was, and still is, employed as manager of operations.

Spearn wrote she is concerned with the way the situation was handled and outraged that two members of city staff have been dismissed.

However, only Butler has left city employment. Albo is currently on stress leave as he felt his work load was too much and he was doing other jobs he believed should not be in his job description.

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ing out the details and Moore wrote in her own letter and response, “Council immediately started negotiating a new contract with Mr. Albo when he made it clear he did not want to work under the terms of his existing contract but also did not want to leave.

Based on his input, we have designed a job that plays to his strengths and takes a lot of the stress out of his position. He is a valued member of the team and will be with the city for many years to come. The agreement is fair for everyone.”

In Butler’s case, things unfortunately did not go so well and it seems some misunderstandings were present, she said.

Spearn wrote in her letter what she believed to be the process that led to Butler leaving. “Both she and Mr. Albo were asked to meet with the mayor ... March 9, to

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discuss ‘something’. Mayor Moore then proceeded to give the same letter to both managers which clearly uses the word ‘termination’.”

Spearn continued to write that Butler was entitled to work for two more years under her current contract with no additional cost to the taxpayer and that now residents are left to pay out nearly $200,000 in the wake of her contract termination and subsequent payout.

“The council could have let her contract expire,” Spearn wrote, “and saved that large amount of money. Ms. Butler seized an opportunity to negotiate a pay out and now we’ll all pay, when it was unnecessary. Is this good stewardship of our taxpayers money?”

While it is true that a large payout has been confirmed, Moore said no letters were given to the employees and it

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was more of a friendly headsup that was taken the wrong way.

In Moore’s rebuttal, she explained, “I showed both employees a draft letter but clearly told them that council had not yet approved it; it wasn’t signed, it wasn’t on letterhead and it had a future date on it. It was, however, council’s intent to change the contracts.”

The contracts were in dire need of change, council agreed, as part of their attempt to clean up and reorganize the messy situation at city hall.

Moore continued, “Ms. Butler quit rather than work under the terms of her contract. That was her prerogative. Technically, the city was not obligated to pay her anything. In honor of her years of dedicated service, council gave her a generous payout.

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Local

Traffic fine revenue sharing helps offset the cost of policing FROM PAGE 1 and has varied over the last few years, but Fruitvale will receive almost $480,000 by June 30.

Cresswell said the province is providing an advance on next year’s sum, which means in 2016 the grants could be seven to 10 per cent less than 2015.

“The amount is 86.5 per cent of what our taxes are,” Cresswell noted. “So you can see that any changes in the amount the province transfers to us under this revenue sharing program may have quite an impact on taxpayers or service levels provided.”

Montrose will receive approximately $395,000 this year, says CAO Bryan Teasdale.

“Generally, these funds are used to help complete general administration and operational activities for the village (both past and present budgets),” Teasdale explained “And have been fairly consistent over the past few years, although the name of these annual transfers has changed.”

Regional districts are disbursed money during the funding cycle to assist with administration costs through a basic grant program.

The scale of the grant is based on regional district population in 50,000 resident increments; beginning at $120,000 for regional districts up to 20,000 residents and phasing out at 250,000 residents.

Each regional district receives

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an additional $5,000 for each local community commission.

This year the Regional District of Kootenay boundary will receive $207,000 in unconditional funding, according to Beth Burget, RDKB’s general manager of finance.

The district budgeted $150,000 in general administration and $40,000 in electoral area administration to offset associated expenses, she added.

During the granting cycle, Trail receives additional funds, this year $112,000, through traffic fine revenue.

The Traffic Fine Revenue Sharing (TFRS) program funding helps offset the cost of policing and community safety.

“The payment helps offset the $2.1 million the city pays for policing services,” explained Perehudoff.

“It is not specifically directed towards a “traffic related” project but forms part of general revenue.”

The TFRS grants come from ticket fines and court-imposed fines on violation tickets, and the amount of money a municipality receives is based on its contribution to total municipal policing costs.

Only communities that pay for policing – Trail, Nelson and Castlegar, receive traffic fine revenues. Rural communities with populations under 5,000 that do not pay directly for policing are accounted for through a reduction in the police tax rate.

Drug charges laid after 600 pot plants seized in rural Fruitvale

By Sheri Regnier Times Staff

A Fruitvale man is facing charges of possession for the purpose of trafficking and production after police seized 600 marijuana plants on Thursday.

Greater Trail officers executed a search warrant under the Controlled Drugs and Substances

‘No one was fired,’ says mayor

Act at a rural Fruitvale residence that day.

The male was arrested following the discovery of the marijuana plants, which were in various stages of growth, according to a Friday news release from the Trail and Greater District RCMP. The man is slated to appear in Rossland Court next month.

FROM PAGE 2 “No one was fired. Both employees had the option to continue to work under the generous terms of their existing contracts for two years; then council would be free to renegotiate better contracts for the benefit of the community.”

Spearn then asked why another councillor wasn’t present at the meeting in addition to Moore.

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Moore stated the intention was to have another council member present but he wasn’t available.

“Ms. Spearn states that I acted without council’s approval or foreknowledge. Council had innumerable meetings to discuss this labour issue and other challenges arising from contracts entered into by the previous council. I acted with council’s full knowledge and endorsement. As a courtesy, and in

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Also at open council, councillor Aaron Cosbey admitted, “We were stupid for not seeing [Butler’s reaction].” He was referring to her decision to leave upon hearing of the contract renegotiation. Council believes Butler took it as a sort of termination and was not comfort-

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“This council is dealing with a number of residual issues and complicated contracts approved by the last council,” Moore added.

“That is the case whenever a new group takes over. It was clear from the election results that the community supported a new approach.

While we appreciate that change is hard, council is taking action.”

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Provincial

Wolf cull ends for this year with 84 killed

By Tom Fletcher Black Press

The B.C. government has killed 11 wolves in the South Selkirk Mountains and another 73 in the South Peace region in the first year of a five-year plan to protect dwindling caribou herds.

The South Selkirk program left seven to 10 wolves alive because they were not targeting caribou, and their movements continue to be tracked. That mountain caribou herd is down to 14, compared to 18 last year and 46 in 2009.

The South Peace herds have also seen significant losses from wolves, with 37 per cent of adult mortalities confirmed as wolf kills. Four herds in the region, the Quintette, Moberly, Scott and Kennedy-Siding, were targeted in the wolf removal program.

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The B.C. government has completed the first season of a five-year targeted cull of grey wolf populations. the air was a last resort after targeted hunting and trapping of wolves proved inadequate, sometimes splitting up wolf packs and increasing predation of caribou.

The South Selkirk herd has been

subject to intensive protection efforts on both sides of the Canada-U.S. border.

In 2007 the province banned logging and roadbuilding in its 2.2 million-hectare B.C. range and restricted off-road recreatioin to reduce human disturbance.

In the Peace region, restrictions were approved in 2012 to protect 498,000 hectares of high elevation winter range.

The modern program began in 2003, after decades of managed hunting and other wolf control measures.

For the first part of the 20th century, B.C. offered a bounty on wolves that ended in 1955. Beginning in 1950, baits laced with poison were used in bait stations and later dropped onto frozen lakes and rivers, which killed other species as well as wolves.

Large-scale poisoning in wilderness areas was suspended in 1960, but targeted baiting to protect livestock continued until 1999.

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B.C. Supreme Court asked to quash Site C environmental assessment certificate THE CANADIAN PRESS FORT ST. JOHN, B.C. - A land owner in northeastern British Columbia says he stands to lose virtually everything if the provincial government is allowed to move ahead with building a controversial dam in the region.

Ken Boon operates a farm, a campground and a log-home business in an area of the Peace River valley slated to wind up underwater if the Site C hydroelectric project is allowed to continue.

“It would all be wiped out if Site C went ahead,” said Boon, estimating his land loss at roughly 130 hectares. “It would take us out of business.”

On Monday, a regional land owner group headed by Boon will be in court in Vancouver in an effort to derail the $8.8-billion megaproject.

The Peace Valley Landowner Association is asking the B.C. Supreme Court to quash the environmental assess-

ment certificate for the Site C dam, arguing the provincial government failed to properly follow the assessment process.

“We feel they hijacked the results and issued a certificate that’s not valid,” said Boon, adding that the assessment brought up valid concerns and recommendations which were ignored by the government.

“Our preference is not to go to court but this was really the only path the government gave us.”

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This case is the first of seven legal challenges related to Site C being brought against the B.C. and federal governments from a variety of groups.

On Thursday, Treaty 8 First Nations will be in court challenging the provincial government.

Joe Foy is the national campaign director for the Wilderness Committee, a Va n c o u v e r- b a s e d environmental organization and ally of the Peace Valley Landowner Association.

Foy argues the loss of wildlife habitat and farmland is not justified by the dam’s construction.

“The government hasn’t proven the need for the project and therefore the project shouldn’t be allowed,” said Foy. “It’s a heck of a way to waste $9 billion and destroy a lot of land in the process.”

The B.C. government gave the project the green light late last year.

First Nations and environmental groups have denounced the Site C project, forecasting it as the most expensive mistake in the province’s history.

The land owner association will return to court in July to level similar complaints against the federal government.

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Thieves drill through concrete to steal $100,000 in computers THE CANADIAN PRESS KAMLOOPS, B.C. - Police are investigating a heist at a computer store in Kamloops, B.C., that could have been scripted straight from a Hollywood movie.

Staff at the Simply Computing store in the Sahali Centre Mall arrived Saturday to find a pile of debris in a back storage room.

Store manager Regan Hayes said no alarm was sounded because the thieves broke in through the mall’s concrete ceiling.

About 50 iPads and 38 computers were stolen. The value of the items is estimated to be between $50,000 and $100,000.

Hayes said it appears the crooks climbed onto the mall’s roof sometime overnight, where they were able to get into an empty second-storey office through a window.

Once inside they drilled through the concrete floor and then into the drywall of Simply Computing’s ceiling.

“It’s ‘Ocean’s 11’ stuff,” Hayes said, referring to the movie starring George Clooney, Brad Pitt and Julia Roberts.

“They dropped in through the ceiling and took all of our laptops and all of our iPads.”

Hayes said Apple’s high-tech security and tracking software might come in handy for police when it comes to catching those responsible.

“If someone sells these things, they can work it back and trace it to them,” he said.

Hayes said the thieves did not gain access to the secure room where they keep customers’ computers that are in for repairs.

“Nobody’s personal information was accessed,” he said.

The RCMP investigation into the burglary is ongoing.

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Mayor pleads to gangs THE CANADIAN PRESS SURREY, B.C. - The mayor of the British Columbia city at the centre of a gang war implored those shooting at each another to stop before more people are killed.

Surrey Mayor Linda Hepner’s comments come after police named 22-year-old Arun Bains as the victim in a shooting over the weekend.

Mounties say Bains was known to be connected to the street-level drug trade and became the first person to lose his life after almost two dozen shootings in six weeks.

RCMP Assistant Commissioner Dan Mallow says police are united in taking action against a gang war that has erupted on Surrey streets.

Mallow says every officer in the region has been given information on the people who are known to be involved.

Police have determined that 14 of the 22 shootings in Surrey and neighbouring Delta since March 9 are linked to a dispute between gangs of South Asian and Somalian descent.

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NDP platform takes page from former PC premier Peter Lougheed THE CANADIAN PRESS EDMONTON - Alberta NDP Leader Rachel Notley took a page from former Tory premier Peter Lougheed when she unveiled her party’s election campaign platform in Edmonton on Sunday.

Notley said corporations that did well during the boom should be expected to shoulder more of the burden during lean times.

She said Premier Jim Prentice calls that extremist, but notes that Lougheed also supported a corporate tax increase.

Notley admitted she may have felt a bit odd at first to be agreeing with Lougheed, since her late father, Grant Notley, was NDP leader when Lougheed was premier.

“I might have originally, given my dad’s historic relationship. But you know what?

He had some pretty good ideas,” Notley said about Lougheed.

“Some of those ideas were, in order to wean ourselves off the oil revenue roller coaster, we needed to start looking at asking corporations to pay a bit more.”

She says 90 per cent of Albertans would pay less in taxes with the NDP platform than the PC plan, and she promised not to introduce a sales tax.

The platform also promises to reverse the PC government’s cuts to health care and education, and introduce a job creation tax credit that would rebate 10 per cent of the wages paid to new employees.

The provincial budget, the platform pledges, would be balanced by 2017.

Opposition parties have been trending up and the Tories trending down in opinion polls, with the NDP, the Wildrose and the Tories meeting in the middle.

Party supporters who were on hand at the platform launch said they believed the reason for their party’s apparent rise was that voters are tired of the 44-year-old Tory government.

“The premier says, ‘Look in the mirror.’

People went and looked in the mirror and all they saw was PC for 40 years,” said supporter Rob Odokki, referring to Prentice’s remarks in March in which critics accused him of blaming Albertans for the current economic problems.

Supporter Colleen Chapman said that while the boom years were a boost for many people, others in her central Edmonton constituency suffered, noting she knows people working several jobs just to pay bills.

Susan Dut, meanwhile, said the government’s cuts to education and health were issues that are motivating opposition.

“I feel like for me, it’s hitting a lot more close to home now,” Dut said.

The NDP platform promises to eliminate the health levy announced in the recent budget and create 2,000 new longterm care beds. A re-introduction of a progressive income tax also means citizens making more than $125,000 will be asked to pay a little more, the platform says.

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Budget to set federal election campaign running THE CANADIAN PRESS OTTAWA - The symbolism of Finance Minister Joe Oliver donning a pair of Tory blue sneakers Monday for the traditional new-budgetshoes photo opportunity shouldn’t be lost on anyone.

A federal election date may yet be six months away, but Tuesday’s promised delivery of the Harper government’s first balanced spending blueprint in eight years means the Conservatives are already off and running.

In fact, the well-orchestrated march to the 2015 general election began more than a year ago, when the government presented a 2014 budget that, it turns out, could have reasonably showed a surplus - but held off the big reveal until Canadians were closer to the ballot box.

The parliamentary budget office last week predicted 2014-15 will come in $3.4 billion in the black - a possible jump start on those

“New Balance” runners Oliver slipped on at a Toronto shoe store.

The long march continued last Halloween at a campaign-style event in Vaughan, Ont., where Prime Minister Stephen Harper rolled out a five-year, $27-billion package of improvements to family benefits and targeted tax cuts - a sort of rolling campaign barrage timed to light up the fireworks in July when families receive their first retroactive benefit cheques.

The simple electoral arithmetic of tax breaks and benefit boosts was on display Monday in the House of Commons.

“In my riding of Oak Ridges-Markham, (constituents) get up every morning, they get to work and what they want their government to do is put more money back in their pockets to invest in their priorities,” said Paul Calandra, Harper’s parliamentary secretary, who holds one of the coveted 905

area code ridings around Toronto.

Between Tuesday’s budget launch and those well-timed, mid-summer family cheques there will be an orgy of government self-promotion, with $7.5 million already earmarked for “economic action plan” advertising.

These large set pieces of the Conservative re-election campaign will be augmented Tuesday with a host of smaller measures aimed up shoring up perceived weaknesses and bolstering perceived strengths.

Help for seniors - a key Conservative voting demographic that’s growing as the baby boomers pass 65 - is also expected through changes to registered retirement income fund rules and a long-promised doubling of the $5,500 annual limit on tax-free savings accounts.

There will be cash for the national security apparatus, a big government selling point in this season of domestic

terror attacks and overseas military missions.

Announcements linked to the upcoming country-wide celebrations for Canada’s 150th birthday in 2017 are also expected as the Conservatives pound home the “Strong Proud Free” marketing tagline they’ve introduced to government ads.

There will likely be targeted infrastructure funding for major public transit projects, spending the government will promote as “green” to help cover a weak environmental policy flank while wooing those suburban commuters Calandra referenced.

And there may be measures to bolster manufacturing, small businesses and skills training as the Conservatives attempt to buff their job creation credentials.

Headlining it all will be the return to surplus, backstopped by proposed balanced budget legislation.

Military keeps families out when investigating deaths: report

THE CANADIAN PRESS OTTAWA - Canada’s military watchdog says the families of soldiers who die in the line of duty remain on the outside looking in when it comes to Defence Department investigations.

But a military lawyer who represents many of those families says they become more like pawns whenever the institution is required to investigate itself.

In a new report, Canadian Forces ombudsman Gary Walbourne recommends setting up a family co-ordinator position to work with relatives and figure out how best to involve them in the complex board of inquiry process.

“The death or

serious injury of a Canadian Armed Forces member is always a difficult event and none is more profoundly affected by it than the member’s family,” Walbourne said in a statement.

“These families need and deserve

information, support and assistance to help them come to terms with the loss or injury.”

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The most high-profile example involves the recently concluded public inquiry into the 2008 suicide of Cpl. Stuart Langridge, during which his parents were long denied a copy of the investigation report.

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Provincial land sales leave lingering odour

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he B.C. Liberal government’s sale of Crown properties to help balance its election budget was the dominant story in the legislature last week, as the NDP revealed evidence of a “fire sale” that may have left millions on the table.

They started with Burke Mountain, the biggest single deal involving 14 view properties in Coquitlam.

The buyer was a prominent developer whose array of companies happened to donate nearly $1 million to the B.C. Liberal Party since 2000.

The $85 million price tag was similar to the B.C. Assessment Authority value on these forested properties, but an outside appraisal concluded they could have fetched an additional $43 million if they had spent more time on the hot Lower Mainland real estate market.

(This sale made headlines last fall for the

province’s $8 million buyout of the local First Nation’s undefined territorial claim, when it was revealed the chief of the tiny Kwikwitlem First Nation pocketed an $800,000 commission.)

The government’s defence of the sale went from wobbly to weak.

Citizens’ Services Minister Amrik Virk was caught flat-footed and tried to get by on platitudes rather than retreat and find some answers.

Premier Christy Clark weighed in, arguing that the budget would have balanced without the property sale, and that some sales closed too late to help the election-year budget.

Finance Minister Mike de Jong stressed that all these asset sales were detailed in three successive budgets. They downplayed the notion of land sales being rushed.

Then the NDP produced a string of emails sent between senior offi-

TOM

FLETCHER B.C. Views

cials responsible for selling two big properties across the street from the legislature.

“To be part of the sale and development of over eight acres of Victoria’s beautiful inner harbour area is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity. An opportunity that normally would warrant years of planning and preparation,” wrote one citizens’ services bureaucrat.

“Unfortunately we don’t have unlimited time – our goal is to have For Sale signs up by Oct. 31 with sales proceeds in the

bank by March 31, 2013.”

Then came a disclosure about a property in Surrey that had been bought as a potential hospital site.

Once the existing hospital was expanded, that property was declared surplus.

Indeed, de Jong featured this property to promote the government’s plan to stimulate local economies with private sector investment on unused land.

The Surrey deal closed for $20.5 million on March 21, 2014, just days before the end of the fiscal year.

NDP leader John Horgan pointed to an outside appraisal of $23.5 million, and an assessment for tax purposes of $27.2 million.

The appraiser also recommended that the “highest and best use” for the Surrey land was to hold it until had been rezoned for commercial, retail or office development.

De Jong cited another big health property in Vancouver that sold for more than its appraised

and assessed value. It’s only the actual market that determines worth, he insisted.

But it’s now clear that these and perhaps other sales were done with arbitrary deadlines that had everything to do with the B.C. Liberals’ need to balance the books.

When elections are a battle of sound bites, perception matters more than reality.

It’s also worth recalling that the budget deficits prior to the 2013 election were largely a result of the B.C. government’s costly undoing of the harmonized sales tax, rather than the harsh forces of international finance.

Surplus asset sales have a long tradition in B.C., where the government owns more than 90 per cent of all land.

But after this round, full disclosure will be demanded.

Tom Fletcher is legislature reporter and columnist for Black Press.

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THE ASSOCIATED PRESS LOS ANGELES - Even in its debut weekend, Kevin James’s “Paul Blart” sequel couldn’t outpace “Furious 7.”

The reigning box office champion might have slowed from its blockbuster debut, but “Furious 7” maintained first place for the third weekend in a row with an estimated $29.1 million, according to box office tracker Rentrak on Sunday.

This brings the high-octane action movie’s domestic total to a staggering $294 million, well above the $202.8 million that “Fast & Furious 6” had earned at the same point in the cycle in 2013. The film crossed the $1 billion mark Friday.

“The film has set a new standard for the potential for box-office in the pre-summer month of April and has truly become part of movie folklore with its record setting numbers, strong reviews, spectacular word-of-mouth and of course the outpouring of support for late star Paul Walker,” Rentrak’s Senior Media Analyst Paul Dergarabedian said.

“Paul Blart: Mall Cop 2” came in a close second with an estimated $24 million. While the PG-rated comedy didn’t perform as well as the first film’s $31.8 million opening in 2009, it did surpass Sony’s modest expectations. Also, it only cost $30 million to produce.

Meanwhile, the low-budget, social media themed thriller “Unfriended” took third place with $16 million - sixteen times its production budget.

With “Furious 7” topping the charts again and a strong debut for “Unfriended,” Universal’s President of Domestic Distribution Nick Carpou marveled how both of films are “so successful at both ends of the spectrum.”

“Unfriended” is the 11th microbudget film to open above $15 million for Blumhouse. Other successes include “Ouija,” ”The Purge“ series and ”The Boy Next Door.“ According to exit polls, audiences for “Unfriended” were 60 per cent female and 74 per cent under the age of 25.

Rounding out the top five were holdovers “Home” and “The Longest Ride,” with $10.3 million and $6.9 million, respectively.

Disney’s animal film “Monkey Kingdom” debuted to $4.7 million to claim the seventh spot, in line with last year’s “Bears,” also from Disneynature.

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Deaths equal half the Titanic

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he first thing to do, if torial waters to pluck refugees you want to cut the from the sea. The operation number of refugees cost 9.5 million euros a month from Africa and the ($10.3 million), but it rescued Middle East dying while try- 100,000 people from leaking ing to cross the Mediterranean, boats or the open sea. More is to drop leaflets all along than half of the 170,000 refuthe Libyan coast teaching them gees who landed in Italy had about ship stability. Don’t all cause to thank the Italian navy, rush to one side when you spot and only one in a hundred died. a ship that might save you, The number of refugees the pamphlets will say, because arriving in Italy each month your boat will capsize and you is around the same this year, will drown. maybe a little That’s what higher – but ten happened last times as many weekend off the people are dying Libyan coast, on the way. where a boat That is because filled with at the European least 700 refuUnion’s governgees overturned ments, rather GWYNNE when the people than sharing the aboard spotted cost of the Mare a Portuguese Nostrum project, freighter and asked Italy to World Affairs tried to attract shut it down and its attention. substituted their (One survivor says there were own “Triton” operation.

950 people aboard, including Except that “Triton” is in those locked below decks. ) At no way an adequate substitute. least 650 people died – half It only gets a third of funding a Titanic’s worth of casualties Mare Nostrum had, and it is – although the boat in ques- only supposed to operate in tion was only 20 metres (70 Italy’s coastal waters, not farft.) long. Only 28 people were ther out where most of the refusaved. gee boats capsize or founder.

So the second thing to do is Even this year, with the Italian to lock the European Union’s navy theoretically excused from foreign ministers into a room duty, it has saved twice as many and refuse to let them have people as the pathetic “Triton” caviar and champagne until operation. Which, by the way, they agree to do something was INTENDED to be pathetic. about the silent massacre in The argument the European the Mediterranean. Something governments made was that if quite effective was being done you didn’t give the refugees the until late last year, but they hope that they would be saved deliberately stopped it. by the Italian navy, fewer of Until late last year the Italian them would come. Right, so if navy (praise be upon it) was you’re fleeing the civil war in running an operation called Syria or the ghastly dictatorMare Nostrum that went all the ship in Eritrea, and you learn way to the edge of Libya’s terri- that the danger of dying on

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a Mediterranean crossing has gone up from one percent to ten percent, you’re going to decide to stay in war-torn Libya instead?

“In many countries in Europe at the moment,” said Laurens Jolles, the United Nations High Commission for Refugees (UNHCR) representative in Italy, “the (political) dialogue and the rhetoric is quite extreme and very irresponsible....It’s a fear of foreigners..., but it is being exploited for populist or political reasons, especially in election periods.”

Too true. Take, for example, Katie Hopkins, columnist for The Sun, a down-market rightwing British red-top (tabloid newspaper) owned by the estimable Rupert Murdoch.

Last Friday, in an article headlined “Rescue boats? I’d use gunships to stop migrants”, she wrote: “NO, I don’t care. Show me pictures of coffins, show me bodies floating in water, play violins and show me skinny people looking sad. I still don’t care.”

Saying that sort of thing is how she earns her living, but it also expresses the true sentiments of a politically significant minority not only in Britain but in most countries throughout the European Union. When the UNHCR appealed to the EU to resettle 130,000 Syrian refugees, Germany said it would take 30,000, Sweden (with a tenth of Germany’s population) took 2,700 –and the other 26 EU states only took 5,438 between them.

So the drownings will continue.

Gwynne Dyer is an independent journalist whose articles are published in 45 countries.

Fix problems accessing public information An editorial from the Guelph Mercury When Canada’s Information Commissioner Suzanne Legault tabled her most recent report in Parliament, she must have figured it would be unlikely to be acted upon in the final run of this government.

That’s in part because we’re at a point in the life of this government where it’s now a near certainty that no new legislation or law amendment is likely to progress through Parliament that hasn’t been promised by the Harper Conservatives.

It’s also because this government has demonstrated a lack of commitment to broadening Canada’s Access to Information Laws, which Legault was recommending in her latest report.

In fact, the Stephen Harper government’s track record on even fostering a greater spirit of access to government information has been awful. This is a government after all that pulls things like no-questionspermitted media events such

as the one this week in which it disclosed that Canada would be sending military trainers into Ukraine. It’s a government that refers Canadians seeking information to try to obtain it through Access to Information requests — seemingly as a matter of policy. Then, it handles those requests in such a way that sees sky-high rates of formal complaints being filed. The complaints are over such things as delays in releasing materials, fees being charged, purportedly unreasonable requests for time extensions and alleged abuse of the exclusion granted to materials deemed “confidential advice to Cabinet.” Finally, it has impaired the Information Commissioner’s ability to handle these complaints by reducing its budget by more than 10 per cent.

Perhaps Legault’s most recent report and its recommendations will spark some conversation during the pending election campaign.

It would be good for open-

ness in government if these things came about. Legault suggests our nation’s Access to Information Act structure is a system “in crisis” and in need of modernization. Her suggested course of action, in “Striking the Right Balance for Transparency: Recommendations to modernize the Access to Information Act”, offers a compelling mix of possible reforms. Among these is a potential new tool for the government to use to refuse “frivolous and vexatious requests,” a call to extend the act to cover the Prime Minister’s Office and a recommendation the parliament review the legislation every five years. It also calls for the information officer to have the power to release information.

This call for action is unlikely to become a talking point for the federal government as it readies for a re-election bid.

But Canadians should press for Legault’s report becoming a catalyst for political action and legislative reform.

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Jean Shepherd (Bale) Jean was born on April 4, 1927 in Eston, Saskatchewan, and passed away on April 4, 2015 in Trail at the age of 88 yrs. Jean grew up in Elrose, Saskatchewan, Creston, B.C. and spent her married life in Trail. Jean was predeceased by Bob, her husband of 60 years, her parents, John and Ethel Bale, her siblings and their spouses, Hector and Gladys Bale, Martin and Fern Bale, Anne and Herb Shier, and Margaret and Mick Storey, as well as two nieces, Barbara and Linda Storey. Jean was also predeceased by her close friend, Sylvia Dimock.

Jean is survived by 10 nieces and nephews, Jack Shier, Margaret Horton [Shier], Frances Jamison [Shier], Diane Bruce [Bale], Jim Bale, Bill Bale, Sharlene Woods[Bale], John Bale, and Patty Anne Bale, and Betty Storey. She is also survived by Barss Dimock and his children, Lynn, Rick, Gloria, and Ron. Jean loved music and was a gifted pianist, and shared her skills over the years in the school as well as Erika Wendland dance. She was a founding member of Harmony Choir and sang with them for many years. She had a full career teaching school in the Trail district. She and Bob enjoyed ballroom dancing and square dancing. She volunteered for the hospital auxiliary as well as for music festivals.

Jean also enjoyed cross country skiing and time spent with Bob at their New Denver property.

They had many happy times on cruises to many exotic faraway places.

A Memorial Service for Jean will be held at Trail United Church, 1300 Pine Ave., Trail, on Tuesday, April 28, 2015 at 11:00 am. Interment to follow at Mountainview Cemetery. Gwen Ziprick of Alternatives Funeral and Cremation Services has been entrusted with the arrangements. You are invited to leave a personal message of condolence by visiting the family’s register at www.myalternatives.ca As an expression of sympathy, your donations in Jean’s name to the KBRH Auxiliary would be greatly appreciated.

Fruitvale Community Chest, represented by their president Doug Hall, donated $1,000 to the Urology Campaign. Lisa Pasin, director of development (left) and Lynn Miller, board member (right) accepted this cheque on behalf of the KBRH Health Foundation.

B.C. woman pockets US$175,000 environmental prize THE CANADIAN PRESS VICTORIA - A woman who led a fight against a proposed open-pit copper and gold mine in British Columbia has won the North American prize in the world’s largest international contest for grassroots environmental activism.

Marilyn Baptiste, 45, will pocket US$175,000 at a ceremony tonight at San Francisco’s opera house. She will join five other recipients from Kenya, Myanmar, Scotland, Haiti and Honduras at a ceremony attended by more than 3,000 people.

Baptiste is an elected councillor and former chief of the 400-member Xeni Gwet’in First Nations, located about 200

kilometres west of Williams Lake.

The Goldman Environmental Foundation says Baptiste was chosen because of her work in leading the battle against the Prosperity Mine which would have destroyed Fish Lake, a source of spiritual identity and livelihood for First Nations in the south Chilcotin area.

Goldman Prizes are presented annually to people it classifies as environmental heroes from each of the world’s six inhabited continental regions.

The awards recognize grassroots activists working against all odds to protect the environment and their communities.

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“But when I look at the fight and the process ahead of us and all the work we have ahead of us, this kind of an award is something that will help us move forward and will help us gain more allies and more public international education.”

Previous Canadian winners include the former national chief of the Assembly of First Nations Matthew Coon Come and nowdeceased B.C. environmental activist Colleen McCrory.

Baptiste is credited with contributing to two federal environmental review decisions rejecting plans

by Vancouver-based Taseko Mines Ltd. (TSE:TKO), to proceed with its Prosperity mine proposals. The B.C. government’s environmental assessment agency had granted approval for the mine.

Baptiste presented and prepared comprehensive environmental, cultural and eco-

nomic data at federal environmental hearings. She also initiated a one-woman blockade in 2011 that prevented construction crews from reaching the proposed mine site.

The B.C. Supreme Court denied Taseko’s request to end the blockade, which included Baptiste and members of the Tsilhqot’in Nation, of which the Xeni Gwit’in are members.

“Everybody figured we could never win,” she said.

“Our ancestors have passed the torch forward for us to continue to protect the land, our wild salmon, our way of life that is connected to the land, and our future generations. Mother Earth needs our help.”

Baptiste said her people have been fighting to protect their land for hundreds of years.

Last June, the Supreme Court of Canada granted the Tsilhqot’in Nation title to more than 1,700 square kilometres of land in the Nemiah Valley, where Baptiste lives. It’s the first time in Canadian history

a court granted such title.

Last October, the B.C. government pardoned six Tsilhqot’in chiefs who were hanged 150 years ago for their part in what became known as the Chilcotin War of 1864.

Attempts by B.C.’s colonial government to build roads from the coast through Tsilhqot’in territory to the gold fields of the Cariboo were met with aboriginal resistance.

Twenty non-aboriginals died.

Baptiste said her fight against the mines has roots in that war.

“When we talk about the war leaders of 1864, they stopped a road crew from coming in on the southwest side of the territory,” she said. “They were after gold then, and now with this fight they are after gold in the southeastern side.

The story is the same.

It’s just hundreds of years later.”

Baptiste plans to use the prize money to help her family and community. She will also be honoured in a ceremony Wednesday - Earth Day - in Washington, D.C.

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The Vees are victorious.

The Penticton Vees are B.C. Hockey League champions after they defeated the Nanaimo Clippers 3-2 in overtime of Game 6 on Friday night at Frank Crane Arena.

“You’re so excited for your teammates,” said Patrick Sexton, Vees captain, describing the moment. “You fight for six, seven, eight months with these guys just to be able to accomplish this championship. It’s such a great feeling.”

It was another short overtime, as Dakota Conroy scored the championship-winning goal two minutes into OT. He was able to steal a puck that was caught up in an opponent’s skates and had time and space to make a move on the goalie and score the winner.

“That’s a feeling you can’t really explain,” he said. “I just tried to get in the corner and get my stuff off and hope that I didn’t get mauled by my teammates there.”

The game stayed 0-0 until the last 10 minutes of the third period, when the Vees twice surged ahead and the Clippers twice tied it up. Dante Fabbro and Riley Alferd scored for Penticton, with Spencer Hewson and Brett Roulston replying for Nanaimo.

Shots ended up 42-29 in favour of the Vees, with Hunter Miska earning the win and Guillaume Decelles suffering the loss.

“We were down twice, clawed our way back, gave ourselves a chance; I like the spirit and the heart that we played with,” said Mike Vandekamp, Clippers coach. “I couldn’t ask more of our guys when it came to that.”

The Vees ended up winning four straight games in the finals after dropping the first two at home. Vees coach Fred Harbinson talked about his players’ resolve.

“They just found different ways to kind of stay in the moment and not panic and they came to work every day…” he said. “To win championships, it’s never easy. It’s such a fine line.”

Conroy said even after dropping the first two games of the series, the Vees felt like they had the team to win it, and showed resilience. Sexton said the squad’s depth was also a factor. “[The Clippers] had some guys that had to play some hard minutes against our top lines and at the end of the day, our guys found a way to win,” he said.

Nanaimo captain Brendan Taylor said his team should have realized, after going up two games to none, how big the next game was.

“Unfortunately we weren’t able to do that and we let them back in the series and they carried the momentum,” he said.

But he knows his team battled to the end.

“We put all our heart in it all year and we unfortunately didn’t come out with the result, but there was no doubt that everyone on our team wanted to win,” Taylor said.

Sun shines on West Kootenay Archers Spring Shoot

BY TIMES STAFF The West Kootenay Archers hosted another successful and sunny Spring Shoot on the weekend, with about 120 competitors taking to the forest at the Trail Wildlife Association Shooting Range for the annual event.

The weekend saw archers tackle three courses on Saturday and two on Sunday, with over a dozen categories ranging from the very young to the very experienced, and a variety of bows including longbow, recurve, and compound.

Each course is unique in its own right, with shooting distances and levels of difficulty changing from course to course, depending on category. Each track winds for over two kilometres through the forested Casino range, on a marked trail, with life-size foam targets placed at various intervals, in varying situations and angles. One of the more interesting facets of the shoot is the targets themselves,

imitating large game mammals and birds, to the more exotic such as a polar bear and a prehistoric raptor.

Each is marked with a target area, and points scored go from 0-5-8-10 and 11 depending on where your arrow pierces the target. Shooting through a tight window of tree branches, from downhill or uphill vantage is common, and gauging the distance is critical in judging the arrow’s trajectory.

Results: The Men’s Unlimited competition would come down to the final arrow before Trail’s Mike Lerose took home top prize by beating Mike Rieberger of Fruitvale by a single point.

With over 50 archers competing in the Unlimited class, it took five courses and 75, 3-D life-size targets, before the winner would be decided on the final target. Rieberger led Lerose by five points after completing three courses on

Saturday with a score of 423 to Lerose’s 417, setting up Sunday’s dramatic win.

The two went toe-to-toe shooting in the same group, but when the dust settled Lerose notched a 281 over two courses to Rieberger’s 274, beating him by a total of 698 to 697.

Ben Beelestone came third with a two-day total of 690 and Josh Conci was fourth with a 684.

In the Ladies Unlimited, Calla Rieberger came out on top with a score of 601, a mere two points over second-place Lee Bedard, while Candace Campbell came third with 594 points.

In Youth Girls Unlimited Brooke Beetlestone beat out Joshlyn Derosa for top spot, while Brent Plotnikoff shot a very impressive 688 to edge Matthew Dominici, 643, in the Youth Boys Unlimited.

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Ethiopia runner wins second Boston Marathon THE ASSOCIATED PRESS BOSTON - Lelisa Desisa of Ethiopia won his second Boston Marathon on Monday, two years after he donated the medal from his first victory to the city in memory of the bombing victims.

Kenya’s Carolina Rotich was the women’s champion, outsprinting Mare Dibaba down Boylston Street to win by 4 seconds.

Desisa didn’t have much time to celebrate when he won in 2013.

Hours after he crossed the finish line, two bombs exploded on Boylston Street and turned his victory into an afterthought. As the city mourned the three killed and 260 wounded in the explosions, he returned to Boston to donate the medal.

Now Desisa has a Boston title he can enjoy.

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The 25-year-old Ethiopian won the 119th edition of the world’s most prestigious marathon in an unofficial time of 2 hours, 9 minutes, 17 seconds to beat Yemane Adhane Tsegay by 31 seconds. Kenya’s Wilson Chebet was third, another 34 seconds back.

Dathan Ritzenhein of Rockford, Michigan, was the first American, in seventh. Defending champion Meb Keflezighi of San Diego was one spot behind him a year after he became the first American men’s champion since 1983, galvanizing the city behind him as a symbol of patriotism and resilience.

Two years after the explosions, the race took a tentative step back toward normal.

“Boston Strong” was still ubiquitous - on shirts and signs, and shouted by spectators. But the crowds along the 26.2-mile course from Hopkinton to Copley Square were smaller than last year, no doubt thinned by the mid-40 temperatures that came coupled with a stiff wind and rain that was expected to pick up in the afternoon.

With many of the runners wearing long sleeves and gloves to fight off the cold, American Desiree Linden led for much of the women’s race, and fellow U.S. Olympian Shalane Flanagan was also in the pack through the midpoint. But Flanagan dropped back around Mile 18, and Linden fell off the pace in the final miles as Rotich and Ethiopians Mare Dibaba and Buzunesh Deba pulled away.

Storm captures Keystone Cup

The Campbell River Mirror It wasn’t quite the perfect Storm.

But the Campbell River Storm junior hockey team put the perfect exclamation point on the 2014-15 season Sunday by claiming the Keystone Cup with a decisive, 6-3 victory over the North Edmonton Red Wings at Cold Lake Energy Centre in Cold Lake, AB. The Western Canadian Junior B championship is the first in the Storm’s history and the first ever by a Vancouver Island Junior Hockey League team.

The game-winning goal was scored, fittingly, by 20-year-old captain Jordan Rauser, a defenseman who started with the program in the last of five straight losing seasons and who helped shepherd a two-year turnaround into a championship squad under coach and general manager Lee Stone.

Rauser, a Campbell River native, announced last month his intention to play next season at the University of Central Oklahoma.

Also fitting the makeup of the team, the six goals in Sunday’s final were scored by six different players, as the Storm relied all season not on one or two superstars, but a balanced team effort.

Goalie Riley Welyk, who came to the program in a trade deadline deal in January, was awarded first star in the win. Welyk split time in net with Jesse Michel throughout the final three rounds of playoffs as the Storm captured the VIJHL title, the Cyclone Taylor Cup as the B.C. provincial champions and, finally, the Keystone.

Trevor Bottomley, Kobe Oishi, Gavin Rauser, Gage Colpron and Reece Costain all joined Jordan Rauser in the scoring column as the Storm outshot North Edmonton 34-28.

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Spring Shoot -Top Four MINI CUBS GIRLS 450 450 900 1st BERKELEY,OLIVIA 161 87 248 MINI CUBS BOYS JOHNSON,MATTHEW 273 220 493 BEETLESTONE,COLLIN 268 142 410 PEET,LANE 264 120 384 BARISOFF, JORDANN 202 179 381 CUBS GIRLS UNAIDED ANDERSON,MACKENZIE 195 147 342 CUBS GIRLS AIDED BEETLESTONE,GRACE 388 270 658 DEROSA,KENDAL 265 212 477 KOYANAGI,EMILY 216 241 457 DENBIESEN,SENTRI 276 167 443 CUBS BOYS AIDED LIVINGSTON,HAYDEN 432 296 728 JOHNSON,PAYTON 409 290 699 GRANT,AUSTIN 392 282 674 BEETLESTONE,BRENDAN 320 267 587 YOUTH GIRLS UNLIMITED BEETLESTONE,BROOKE 333 209 542 DEROSA,JOSHLYN 300 0 300 YOUTH BOYS UNLIMITED PLOTNIKOFF,BRENT 411 277 688 DOMINICI,MATTHEW 383 260 643 WATERSTREET,JAXSON 312 212 524 DENBIESEN,DAWSON 404 0 404 LADIES LONGBOW PELLETT,MADDIE 217 121 338 OHASHI,PHYLLIS 177 139 316 LADIES RECURVE BERKELEY,SIAR 85 82 167

Hockey NHL Playoffs

Thursday Games N.Y. Rangers 2, Pittsburgh 1 Detroit 3, Tampa Bay 2 Minnesota 4, St. Louis 2 Anaheim 4, Winnipeg 2 Friday, April 17 Montreal 3, Ottawa 2, OT Washington 4, N.Y. Islanders 3 Nashville 6, Chicago 2 Vancouver 4, Calgary 1 Saturday, April 18 Tampa Bay 5, Detroit 1, series tied 1-1 St. Louis 4, Minnesota 1, series tied 1-1 Pittsburgh 4, N.Y. Rangers 3, series tied 1-1 Anaheim 2, Winnipeg 1, Anaheim leads series 2-0 Sunday, April 19 N.Y. Islanders 2, Washington 1, OT, Islanders lead series 2-1 Chicago 4, Nashville 2, Chicago leads series 2-1 Montreal 2, Ottawa 1, OT, Montreal leads series 3-0 Calgary 4, Vancouver 2, Calgary leads series 2-1 Monday, April 20 Rangers at Pittsburgh, 7 p.m.

St. Louis at Minnesota, 8 p.m.

Anaheim at Winnipeg, 9 p.m.

Tuesday, April 21 Tampa Bay at Detroit, 7 p.m.

Washington at N.Y. Islanders, 7:30 p.m.

Nashville at Chicago, 9:30 p.m.

Vancouver at Calgary, 10 p.m.

Wednesday, April 22 Montreal at Ottawa, 7 p.m.

Rangers at Pittsburgh, 7 p.m.

St. Louis at Minnesota, 9:30 p.m.

Anaheim at Winnipeg, 9:30 p.m.

Scoring Leaders Player Team GP G A Pts Smith, C. Nash 3 2 3 5 Toews,J Chi 3 2 3 5 Tarasenko StL 2 3 1 4 Perry, C Ana 2 2 2 4 Backstrom Wash 3 2 2 4 Getzlaf, R Ana 2 1 3 4

LADIES BOWHUNTER OLSON,SAM 293 187 480 RICH,DULCIE 274 187 461 LADIES UNLIMITED RIEBERGER,CALLA 358 243 601 BEDARD,LEE 355 244 599 CAMPBELL,CANDACE 351 243 594 WOODHOUSE,MAGGIE 356 215 571 MENS LONGBOW VANDER HOOK,MEL 272 160 432 CAMPBELL,COLIN 251 174 425 SMITH,KENT 242 176 418 OHASHI,LAWRENCE 238 122 360 MENS RECURVE JOHANNSON,BRAD 378 244 622 STOCKER,CRAIG 316 227 543 SMITH,AUSTIN 313 198 511 DAVIDOW DAVID 239 127 366 MENS BOWHUNTER FEDDERSEN,DAVE 282 205 487 BRESSANUTTI AL 276 193 469 SIPES,JOSH 204 200 404 MENS UNLIMITED LEROSE,MIKE 417 281 698 RIEBERGER,MIKE 423 274 697 BEETLESTONE,BEN 417 273 690 CONCI,JOSH 414 270 684 MENS FREESTYLE OLSON KYLE 435 281 716 GRANT,BRANDON 411 275 686 SCHNEIDER,BRYAN 396 262 658 WATERSTREET,JAKE 374 251 625 MENS CROSSBOW JMAIFF,JERRY 386 255 641 PEET,AUSTIN 371 259 630 JMAIFF,BRETT 376 253 629

Bailey, J. NYI 3 1 3 4 Shattenkirk StL 2 0 4 4 Hossa, M. Chi 3 0 4 4 Wilson, C. Nash 3 3 0 3 Okposo NYI 3 2 1 3 Russell,K. Cal 3 2 1 3 Kunitz, C. Pitts 2 1 2 3 Nesterov TB 2 1 2 3 Steen, A. StL 2 1 2 3 Vatanen, S Ana 2 1 2 3 Flynn, B Mon 3 1 2 3 Horvat, B. Van 3 1 2 3 Kane, P. Chic 3 1 2 3 Keith, D. Chi 3 1 2 3 Mitchell, T Mon 3 1 2 3 Ribeiro, M. Nash 3 1 2 3 Subban PK Mon 3 1 2 3 2015 NHL First Round Draft Order First Round 1. Edmonton Oilers 2. Buffalo Sabres 3. Arizona Coyotes 4. Toronto Maple Leafs 5. Carolina Hurricanes 6. New Jersey Devils 7. Philadelphia Flyers 8. Columbus Blue Jackets 9. San Jose Sharks 10. Colorado Avalanche 11. Florida Panthers 12. Dallas Stars 13. Los Angeles Kings 14. Boston Bruins NOTE: The remaining positions are determined by the results of the Stanley Cup Playoffs.

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NBA Daily Playoff Glance All Times EDT FIRST ROUND (Best-of-7; x-if necessary) EASTERN CONFERENCE Saturday, April 18 Washington 93, Toronto 86, OT, Washington leads series 1-0 Golden State 106, New Orleans 99, Golden State leads series 1-0 Chicago 103, Milwaukee 91, Chicago leads series 1-0 Houston 118, Dallas 108, Houston leads series 1-0 Sunday, April 19 Cleveland 113, Boston 100, Cleveland leads series 1-0 Atlanta 99, Brooklyn 92, Atlanta leads series 1-0 Memphis 100, Portland 86, Memphis leads series 1-0 San Antonio at L.A. Clippers, 10:30 p.m. N/A Monday, April 20 N/A Milwaukee at Chicago, 8 p.m.

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Tuesday, April 21 Boston at Cleveland, 7 p.m.

Washington at Toronto, 8 p.m.

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THE CANADIAN PRESS MONTREAL - A 30-year chapter in one of Canada’s major success stories in the business and entertainment worlds ended Monday with the announcement that Guy Laliberte is selling his majority stake in the famed Cirque du Soleil to a U.S. private equity firm.

The founder of the internationally renowned Cirque, which conquered the world with breathtaking and cutting-edge shows, will maintain a 10 per cent stake in the Montreal-based company and continue to provide strategic and creative input.

“I want to set other creative challenges for myself,” Laliberte, 55, told a news conference in Montreal, which will remain the Cirque’s international creative and management headquarters.

Equity firm TPG has acquired the majority stake for an undisclosed price, while Chinese investment firm Fosun and Quebec pension fund manager the Caisse de depot will hold minority stakes.

Laliberte dismissed any suggestions the Cirque is in financial difficulty, saying it is a profitable venture that sells 11 million tickets a year.

In a statement released before the news conference, Laliberte said the sale will be good for the Cirque.

“After 30 years building the Cirque du Soleil brand, we have now found the right partners in TPG, Fosun and the Caisse to take Cirque du Soleil forward to the next stage in its evolution as a company founded on the conviction that the arts and business, together, can contribute to making a better world,” he said.

Caisse de depot CEO Michael Sabia said it is partnering with Cirque as it seeks to conquer new markets.

“We are pleased that this new era of growth will be directed from Montreal, the Cirque’s decision-making and creative centre, under the direction of Daniel Lamarre as CEO,” he said in a statement.

Since beginning in 1984, Cirque has played to almost 160 million spectators in more than 330 cities in some 48 countries.

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Musical chairs: Who would Blake Shelton want in his seat on NBC’s ‘The Voice’?

THE ASSOCIATED PRESS ARLINGTON, Texas - Musical chairs is a common game on “The Voice.” Pharrell is sitting in a seat originally owned by CeeLo Green and once occupied by Usher, while Shakira and Gwen Stefani have filled in when Christina Aguilera took a hiatus from the show.

Blake Shelton said he has an idea who he would like to fill in his seat - if he ever took a break from the show, currently in its eighth season.

“I think Luke (Bryan) would be good - I do,” Shelton said of his fellow country music star in an interview Friday. “He’d be a good person in that chair.”

Shelton has been the winning coach on the series for four of the seven seasons. Adam Levine, who has won twice, has also stayed on the NBC competition show since it began in 2011.

Shelton said he’s not sure if other artists would sacrifice their careers like he has for “The Voice.”

“There also has to be an element of actually being willing to just give up, pretty much, your career to do it, your touring career,” he said.

“I’m just lazy enough. I may be the only one that was willing to do that.”

“After 15 years of touring all the time, I was ready to sit in one spot for months at a time,” he added. “I know Luke loves to tour and he’s having fun with it.”

“The Voice” has helped Shelton - who was already a top country star - reach audiences outside of the country world. He said he takes the mentorship on the show seriously - and he still connects with the artists he’s worked with after the show ends.

“Well I need to stop because I feel like I am adopting half of these people that have been on my team,” he said, laughing. “We’re all human, and I don’t know how you can be around people that you have a connection with and that you have fun being around, and how that just ends because a TV show ends.”

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business, let the world know. “Like” them on Facebook. Post a review on Yelp or TripAdvisor or Google. You don’t have to write a lot, just a couple of positive sentences. It will make more difference than you realize. -Business Woman Dear Business: It’s human nature to write only when you have a complaint or a disagreement. (We should know.)

When people are satisfied with the service they are getting, they rarely think to say so, but you are right that small businesses depend on good word of mouth. Please, folks, if you have had a pleasant experience with a business or service, say so in an online review. It means

sient these days. People expect to be able to reach you at any moment of the day or night in case something changes at the last minute. But it also means people need constant verification to be sure the plans are still on.

We think they would be happy to reschedule, and

we hope you will let them.

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Dear Annie: When I was growing up, the rule was that if you had to cancel an appointment, you would call to let the person know that your plans had changed. Now that everyone has cellphones, it seems that the rules have changed.

A couple of friends stood me up on my birthday because my cellphone was turned off. They said they didn’t come over because I hadn’t called to verify that I was actually going to be there at the appointed time. But we had already made these plans a week before. I thought I only needed to call if I was NOT going to be there. Am I out of touch with how things are done now? -- Sad Birthday Girl Dear Birthday Girl: It was wrong of your friends to assume you had canceled, but even if they apologize for their rudeness, it won’t change how they respond when they cannot get ahold of you next time. The problem is, so many plans are tran-

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Dear Annie: I am a small-business owner. It’s challenging, but I have wonderful customers who seem to like our service.

So, I’d like to ask your readers a question: Is there a business establishment that you enjoy going to? A restaurant that is part of your life? A store where you always are treated well?

You can help them stay in business by writing a positive online review.

It’s human nature to complain when things go wrong, but it’s rare to post something to let people know when things go right. My business has only a few online reviews, and they are negative posts from customers who were not happy with some small thing. I always try to make amends, but even so, the review is never removed. For every bad thing that happens in my business, there are so many good things and so many happy customers.

They thank me over and over, yet they don’t write reviews, even when I ask.

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YourByhoroscope Francis Drake For Wednesday, April 22, 2015 ARIES (March 21 to April 19) This is a pleasant, easygoing day. Enjoy conversations with siblings, neighbors and friends. It’s a good day to write and study as well.

TAURUS (April 20 to May 20) You can benefit in some way today through earnings or financial transactions. Unfortunately, it’s a poor day to shop or to make important decisions.

GEMINI (May 21 to June 20) Your social skills are tops today! Take some time out of your day to socialize with others and enjoy yourself, because everyone will want to be in your company.

CANCER (June 21 to July 22) You feel happy and easygoing today. You might say you’ve got a warm feeling in your tummy. Just go with the flow and stick to business as usual.

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VIRGO (July 23 to Aug. 22)

This is a wonderful day to socialize with others. In particular, gatherings and groups will be a positive experience for you.

But don’t volunteer for anything.

VIRGO (Aug. 23 to Sept. 22)

You might develop a crush on your boss or someone in a position of authority today. Someone else might ask for your creative input on something.

LIBRA (Sept. 23 to Oct. 22) Travel for pleasure appeals to you today. However, this is a poor day to actually make plans. Do your homework and get the facts, but wait until tomorrow to act.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23 to Nov. 21) Although this is a poor day to make important decisions, discussions about shared property and such nevertheless will be in your favor. Accept gifts and good-

ies that come your way.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22 to Dec. 21) Enjoy socializing with others today, particularly partners and close friends. A casual friend might become a romantic interest. Woo, woo!

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22 to Jan. 19) Things will go well at work for you today. In fact, it’s a good day to join forces with others. Work-related

travel is likely. People are happy today.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20 to Feb. 18) This is a fantastic, creative day! Find ways to express your talents. Grab every opportunity to play and have fun. Accept all invitations.

Activities with children and sports will appeal.

PISCES (Feb. 19 to March 20) Invite the gang over, because this is a wonderful

day to socialize at home.

You will enjoy making your home more beautiful in some way. (But this is a poor day to shop for anything other than gas or food.)

YOU BORN TODAY You are earthy, natural and very organized. You set up systems. You work hard, but in a quiet way. Big money fascinates you. This year you have something important to learn. The first half of

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Jumbo building foundations in City planning for 2016 airshow avalanche risk zones: report

By Arne Petryshen Cranbrook Townsman

By Nicole Trigg

Columbia Valley Pioneer

An assessment of the potential avalanche risk from two avalanche paths in Jumbo Valley has determined that the majority of Jumbo Glacier Resort’s Service Building foundation is in a high risk zone.

“Dense flow impacts were observed with 10 to 15 metres of the building site,” states the report prepared by Dynamic Avalanche Consulting Inc. dated March 19th.

In the report, high risk is indicated by the term “Red Zone” while moderate risk is labelled “Blue Zone” and low risk labelled “White Zone.”

The remainder of the Service Building site is located in the Blue Zone. The resort’s Day Lodge foundation is mostly

within the Blue Zone with a small portion in the White Zone.

“Dense flow avalanche impacts were observed 80 metres from the Day Lodge, but there was no evidence to suggest that dense flow can reach the Day Lodge,” the report explains.

Both concrete foundations were poured last fall just before the resort’s Environmental Certificate came up for renewal.

A decision by the BC Minister of Environment Mary Polak on whether or not Jumbo Glacier Resort achieved enough of a “substantial start” to renew the Environmental Certificate has been pending while an engineering avalanche risk evaluation has been underway.

Based on the above assessments,

the report recommends that a building constructed on the Service Building foundation “not be used or routinely accessed during the winter season.”

Further recommendations include doors and windows facing away from avalanche flow direction and structural reinforcement that can withstand the impact of an avalanche.

With respect to the Day Lodge site, its use is also subject to recommendations, namely a building with structural reinforcement for impact pressures (less than what’s recommended for the Service Building), explosive control with remote fixed exploders to reduce avalanche hazard, and an evacuation plan to reduce potential

residual avalanche risk to workers and the public “within and outside the building.”

The report goes on to say that “protection of workers and the public in and around the Day Lodge will require implementation of an avalanche safety plan, which will include explosive avalanche control and an evacuation plan implemented by trained, experienced and licensed avalanche technicians.”

Other Canadian resorts are located in potential avalanche areas, including Sunshine Village’s day lodge and parking area in Banff, Whitewater Ski Resort in Nelson and Mount Norquay in Banff.

The Jumbo Glacier Resort council meeting scheduled for this week has been cancelled.

Plans are off the ground for a 2016 airshow, with a special teaser this summer that will include flyovers of two vintage WWII planes — a twin-engine B25 “Mitchell” bomber, which visited Cranbrook last summer, and a B17 “Flying Fortress” bomber.

“This is a new contractor we’re working with out of Calgary,” explained CAO Wayne Staudt at Monday’s meeting. “He’s prepared to do some preliminary activity in 2015, including getting the Snowbirds flying over and some other things.”

The vintage planes will take to the air in mid-July, while the Snowbirds — accompanied by a CF 18 fighter and a CF Buffalo aircraft — are scheduled for midAugust.

Planning for the Canadian Rockies International Airshow is underway and on Wednesday, April 22, the Cranbrook International Airshow Society will meet at 7 p.m. at the old airport firehall.

Darrell Garton, chair of the society, is inviting anyone interested to come to the meeting. They are looking for volunteers from all over the area and will be going over the details of the airshow plans.

The Canadian Rockies International Airshow is planned for Aug. 5 and 6, 2016.

The upcoming teasers this summer are meant to help raise interest in the 2016 airshow. The vintage World War II bombers are operated by the Commemorative Air Force, while the Canadian Forces operate the CF 18 and the Buffalo, as well as the Snowbirds.

The August flyover will also include up to eight civilian aeronautical performers that will offer a sample of their performances.

Among the civilian performers that will be participating in the teaser are several performers from the Discovery Channel television series “Airshow”. That includes series star “Super Dave” Mathieson.

Additionally, the executive producer of Airshow, Mark Miller, a former resident of Cranbrook, will be in attendance this August to film the flyover as part of the television series.

As a fund raiser for the new local airshow society, WestJet has graciously donated a return ticket for two to any scheduled WestJet destination in Canada. The society will hold a raffle for tickets this summer with the proceeds going into the development of the airshow.

Trail’s Future is Bright!

Victoria Street Buy-a-Light Fundraising Campaign • Showcase a Feature Landmark • Celebrate our City & Community Spirit • Enhance the Esplanade • • Create more Excitement & Energy around the Downtown Core • Reconnect Downtown with the Columbia River • • The LED Lights will complement the lights to be integrated in the soon-to-be Pipeline/Pedestrian Bridge •

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The Downtown Opportunities & Action Committee (DOAC) is well on their to reaching their $190,000 fundraising goal. Show your support too! Buy-a-Light after March 2nd for $200* and you will receive formal sponsor recognition at the west entrance of the Victoria Street Bridge.

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1358 Cedar Avenue, Trail • 250.368.8818 www.kootenayhomes.com www.century21.ca RENTALS

388 Austad Lane

Mark Wilson

ICE NEW PR

250-231-5591

mark.wilson@century21.ca

750/mo

$

We have excellent tenants waiting for rentals in Glenmerry, Sunningdale and East Trail.

801 Glen Drive, Trail

$199,000

Solid Sunningdale 4 bdrm 2 bath home on large fenced lot. Quiet family oriented neighbourhood. Good value here!

Call Terry 250-231-1101

1450 - 5th Avenue, Trail

$205,000

Just move in - everything has been done for you! Elegant, tasteful, open concept, and very energy efficient 3 bdrm, 2 bath home.

There is a lot going on in this package!

Call Tonnie (250) 365-9665

Call today if you need your property professionally managed!

Terry Alton 250-231-1101 Tonnie Stewart (250) 365-9665

Terry Alton $155,000

Top quality updates! This sweet little package is perfect! All the mechanical upgrades have been done to perfection. Newer heat pump, furnace, wiring, plumbing, windows, roof, floors, counter tops, back splash, fence and landscaping.

All you have to do is move in and put any personal touches you’d like.

Call Deanne (250) 231-0153

ICE NEW PR

1912 Hummingbird Drive, Fruitvale

$349,900

Built in 2008 - this 4 bdrm /3 bath home still feels brand new. Vaulted ceilings and lots of sunlight throughoutopen floor plan with lovely hardwood floors. Double garage and fenced yard. Move in and enjoy.

Call Mark (250) 231-5591

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1577 Pine Avenue, Trail

$289,000

Brand new 3 bdrm home and the GST is included! Amazing views, 2 decks and nicely decorated.

Hardi plank siding, a triple carport and asphalt roof. Quick possession available.

Call Christine (250) 512-7653

745 Dickens St., Warfield

$199,500

Beautifully upgraded. You will love the kitchen, lots of storage, stainless steel appliances, and wood flooring. The charming dining room has french doors to large deck. Living room and dining rooms also have wood flooring.

Call Mary M (250) 231-0264

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$199,000

Bright and sunny 3 bdrm family home with new hot water tank, windows, furnace, carpeting, paint and siding. Call today!

Call Christine (250) 512-7653

1216 Columbia Ave, Trail

Enjoy the carefree life in this low maintenance town home. Tastefully decorated, well maintained, featuring 3 bdrms, 1.5 baths, with newer windows, air conditioning, fenced yard and carport. Excellent value! Call now to view!

Call Deanne (250) 231-0153

This home is in a great location.

Enjoy the low maintenance yard and large deck. This home has had extensive upgrades including new deluxe kitchen and bathroom and many mechanical upgrades too.

Call today!

Call Richard (250) 368-7897

$178,000

$199,000

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572 Spokane Street, Trail

$45,000

Good rental or starter home with 4 bdrms, country kitchen, rec. room, single carport, and view deck. Plumbing in basement for a second bathroom. Located an easy five minute walk to town.

Call Art (250) 368-8818

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Tonnie Stewart

250-365-9665

tonniestewart@shaw.ca

Mary Martin 250-231-0264

mary.martin@century21.ca

Richard Daoust 250-368-7897

richard.daoust@century21.ca

Mary Amantea

250-521-0525

$219,000

Warfield Charmer! This 3 bedroom home offers lots of space and main floor laundry. Central air-conditioning and electric fireplace add to comfort. Great parking with paved driveway and double carport. Low maintenance exterior with vinyl siding, steel roof, low maintenance yard. Quick possession possible.

Call Mary M (250) 231-0264

We want to hear from

Sat, April 25 1-2:30pm

550 Schofield Highway, Warfield

1210 Primrose Street, Trail

770 Tennyson Ave., Warfield

OPEN HOUSE NEW

250-231-1101

1477 - 2nd Avenue, Trail

mamantea@telus.net

Bill Craig

250-231-2710

bill.craig@century21.ca

Deanne Lockhart

1450 Webster Road, Fruitvale

250-231-0153

deannelockhart@shaw.ca

$339,000

Art Forrest

10 acres of incredible privacy and stunning views. This home is very spacious, great as a large family home or use the self-contained main in-law suite separately. Vaulted ceilings, wood stove and large deck. 4 bdrms on upper level and 2 bedrooms down. Call your REALTOR® for your personal viewing.

c21art@telus.net

Call Mary M (250) 231-0264

250-368-8818

Christine Albo 250-512-7653

christine.albo@century21.ca

Dave Thoss

250-231-4522

dave.thoss@century21.ca

Dan Powell Christina Lake 250-442-6413

powelldanielk@gmail.com